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Leech · Angelmaker

EXERCISE 6 OF 53
Groove C -- Part C
68 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS, CHORUS 4
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART Y
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesERBCY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Leech on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-35, hi-hat through bars 36-46, snare through bars 47-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-58, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-25 and 48-51, and 4 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    48
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Leech -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 85, 88, 93, 97 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-18 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-44 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Leech?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Leech hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Leech?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 21, 85, 88, 93, 97 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED